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RUSCUS ACULEATUS. BUTCHER’s BROOM, 
Or KNEE HOLLY. 
SYNONYMA. Rufcus. Pharm. Geoff. Dale. 169. Alfon.t. 
386. Lewis. 546. Murray. i. p. 341. Bergius. 816. Edinb. 
New Difpenf. 267. -Baub. Pin. 470. Ger. Emac. 907. Park. 
Theat. 253. Raitt. Hift. 664. Synop. 262, Hudfon. Flor. Ang. 
437. Haller. Hift. Stirp. Helv. 2. 1238. With. Bot. Arr. 1132. 
Miller. Iluft. t. 155. | 
Dioecia Syngenefia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 1139. 
Gen. Ch. Masc. Cal. 6-phyllus. Cor.o. Neéarium centrale, 
ovatum, apice perforatum. © 
Fem. Calyx, Corolla, et Nefarium matis. Stylus 1. Bacca 
3-locularis. — Sem. 2. 
Sp. Cb. R. foltis fupra floriferis nudis. 
A SMALL evergreen fhrub, feldom much exceeding a foot in 
height.. Stalk ftrong, fmooth, channelled. Leaves floriferous, feflile, 
or on very fhort footftalks, ovate, rigid, fharply pointed,* entire, marked 
with numerous parallel veins. Flowers male and female on different 
plants, folitary, appearing on the upper dife of the leaves, Calyx of 
the male flower compofed of fix {mall oval fpreading leaves, of a 
yellowifh green. Corolla none. Neétarium ege-fhaped, inflated, 
upright, purple, open at the rim, of the length of the calyx. Filaments 2D 
none, Anthere three, expanding, uniting at the bafe, placed at the 
mouth of the neCtarium. In the female flower the germen is oblong, 
_* Hence Virgil fays, Horridior rufeo,” Ec.7. V. 41, 
And again 
oon afpera rufci 
Vimina per filvam; ——+» 
enclofed 
